hey guys welcome back to my channel today I wanted to go over why I left the
health field and why I got into coding I get asked this question a lot so I
assumed that it's a very popular question so yeah let's begin
so let's see I've been in the coding engineering field for about two years now I quit my
job at cedars-sinai in October 2015
I come from a very Asian background I'm a first generation child my parents
immigrated here from China so you know like many other Asian parents they
wanted me to become a doctor my sister's actually a doctor so growing up that was
kind of the one pathway for me I was never really that passionate about it
but I knew like that was what I was gonna end up doing so I went to UCI
with a major in bio and I ended up graduating with a major in public health but I tried to
study very hard but I just don't think the passion was there for me
I just did not have that dedication in order for you to become a doctor you
really need that dedication and passion because it's just so hard and so
competitive and I just did not have it in me so after I threw out that idea I
decided to check out pharmacy I really liked chemistry so I assumed becoming a
pharmacist would be you know a lot of fun but that didn't work out then I
tried to go through the road up becoming physicians assistant that obviously
didn't work out and then I tried I decided that maybe you know what
healthcare admin thought that could be the field for me so I actually took my
GREs I was planning to apply to get my masters but obviously
that didn't work out so yeah I was working at cedars-sinai as my last job
in the health field I was in clinical research it was a lot of fun I was
helping a lot of people which is why I actually
agreed with my parents because I just you know wanted to help people it
benefit them it benefited me so why not but it there was just something missing
for me I needed something that allowed me to have more of a creative outlet and
it just was not something I could see myself doing for the rest of my life so
that is when I Googled top most creative jobs and actually I think maybe the first
were second one was a software engineer or coding and that's when I was like
hmm maybe this is something I can actually do because I was actually
interested interested in a couple of years back but I just never did much with it
besides go on code Academy which is just very basic stuff and that's when boot
camps were first starting so I actually knew a couple of my friends who went to
boot camp and I talked to them and they just seemed to love it
and I did my research. there was like maybe general assembly another one I
forget and Coding dojo was just starting and that's the one I decided to go to it
was about 14 weeks $12,000 I used up all my savings by that time I parents are like
do whatever you want we're not gonna give you money
I actually got maybe a early bird special as well as a woman scholarship I just
had to like write a page about why I wanted to go into coding so ended up
becoming maybe about eight thousand which is
still a lot but I guess it's not as much as grad school so yeah I quit my job
or I gave my notice in June 2015 and I quit in October 2015 and I started in
November 2015 and I it was one of the best decisions I've ever made it was
hard I've never did any coding before it
besides code academy in which all I did was HTML CSS which is very very basic
stuff I went in the first day and I was like oh my god what was I thinking I
quit everything I had no experience in this field I'm literally starting
completely new and it was a hard 14 weeks actually it was a hard maybe six
months because the 14 weeks flew by fast I was there from 8 a.m. to maybe like 6
p.m. or 10 p.m. depending and honestly it's whatever you put into it you get
out of it so I just you know worked really hard because I knew I had no
other option so I graduated end of January 2016
and that's when I started looking for jobs which was maybe the hardest part of
this whole entire journey and it's very hard to find a job if you have no
experience or no degree in something so I applied to maybe 10 to 15 jobs
everyday where every other day got plenty of rejection emails or maybe even
got ignored plenty of times I felt very discouraged a lot but I literally knew I
had another choice so I just kept on going until finally a company said yes
to me thank God they decided to take a chance on me and I was there for maybe
about year and a half it was a start up in
Irvine and now I'm on to my next job I've been on my new job for about four
months now and yeah I'm just very happy with where
I am I'm really happy I took the leap because if not I would probably still be
in clinical research and I just don't think I would would have been as happy
with it but yeah if you guys are going through this and you guys have any
questions please comment down below I would love to hear about it I am an
advocate for women in tech and even if you're not a woman just it's
awesome being in the tech field it really is and I love how I can work in
any field actually because pretty much everything needs some kind of technology
these days so I just before I just couldn't see myself being stuck at a
hospital for the rest of my life I just really needed a creative outlet and I feel
like with software engineering there's so much things I can do with it which is
awesome and I am just very excited about what the future holds for me and yeah so
I hope you guys enjoyed my little spiel about why I left the field and if you
guys have any questions or any concerns or you guys need some advice or you
want some resource about where to find some kind of stuff just
comment down below and I will be happy to answer but yeah thanks for watching
and I will see you guys next time bye